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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47159	More divisions amongst the Quakers as appears by the following books of their own writing, viz. I. The Christian faith of New-England Quakers condemn'd by a meeting of Pensilvanian Quakers. II. The false judgment of a yearly meeting of Quakers in Maryland, condemn'd by George Keith, Thomas Budd, &c. all Quakers : to which is added, A discovery of this mystery of iniquity / by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.; Budd, Thomas, 1648-1699.	1693 (1693)	Wing K182; ESTC R14234	21,479	25

forth two Christs which is but their great Ignorance and Unbelief and no just Consequence of our Principle for the true Christ of God is One and the true Christians Faith receiveth and imbraceth him whole and undivided and owneth his inward and outward Coming who as he did come without us in a state of Humiliation to suffer and is risen and ascended into Heaven so he will come again without us to Judge the Quick and the Dead and all Mankind shall stand before him the Sheep on his right Hand and the Goats on his left And there shall be a Resurrection of the Body both of the Just and unjust that is not attained already or immediately after Death but it is to be attained unto in the Time appointed of God called The Day of Judgment And seeing our Friends in England have fully answered to all these false Accusations of Thomas Hicks and John Faldo with whom Christian Lodowick hath joyned we refer to their Answers for the further Satisfaction of them who desire to have it And it is falsly charged upon us by Christian Lodowick in his Papers That according to our Principle all honest and conscientious Heathens or Gentiles who have not the Knowledge and Faith of Christ crucified outwardly and risen again c. and Jews and Mahometans are in Christ as well as we and true Christians Believers c. Nor doth this follow by any just Consequence from our Principles for though we do affirm That all conscientious and honest Gentiles such as Cornelius was before the Faith of Christ was preached to him have some measure of Light from Christ to enlighten them and are under some Administration of the Spirit yet it is but the first Ministration until the knowledge and Faith of Christ as he died for our sins and rose again c. be spiritually received and such who have the true and saving Knowledge and Faith of Christ as he died and rose again without them spiritually receiving it by the Light and Spirit of Christ in them and wrought in them by that mighty Power that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead and which conformeth them to Christ in the like Vertues of Love Patience Humility Resignation c. so as to love Enemies are only Christians and Sons of God of the Free-woman having received the Spirit of Adoption whereby they cry Abba Father but who have not this Faith of Christ crucified and raised again outwardly spiritually received and wrought in them by the Spirit of Christ whether they have or have not heard Christ outwardly preached unto them are at best however just and conscientious to the just Principle of God in them not under the second and more peculiar Ministration of God's Spirit that maketh Men worthy to be esteemed Christians but are only under the first and such are held under the Custody or Safeguard of the Law shut up unto the Faith that is afterwards to be revealed as Paul hath declared Gal. 3.23 and the state they are in under this first Ministration is to them as the City of Refuge was to the Man-slayer under the Law and whereof it was a Tipe And this first Ministration of the Law and Light in them that answereth to Moses and the Prophets and to John who are faithful and conscientious under it prepareth them to receive the Knowledge and Faith of Christ crucified and raised again and fitteth them for the second Ministration of the Spirit that bringeth them to witness the Spirit of Adoption and the Anointing that maketh them true Christians and conformeth them to Christ in the like Vertues so as to love Enemies and lay down the Life for Enemies which is more than meer honest conscientious Gentiles who have not the Faith of Christ crucified and raised again can do And whereas the said Christian Lodowick doth further accuse us That what we say we know of the Scriptures we should have known if it had never been writ according to our Principle This is falsly charged upon us as many other things in his Papers for though we believe and say that some things declared in Scripture we should have known if they had not been writ as that there is a God the Creator and Lord of Heaven and Earth that requireth us and all men by his Law and Light in us to live soberly and righteously and to fear love and worship him and divers other general things of great use and service to men according to Paul's Doctrine For the invisible things of God even his eternal Power and Godhead are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made so that they are without excuse for what is to be known of God is manifest in them yet the peculiar Doctrines and Mysteries of the Christian Faith as that Christ should be born of a Virgin die for our sins and rise again and that he is both God and Man and many other the like peculiar Mysteries of the Christian Faith we do acknowledge and have always acknowledged That the Doctrine of the holy Scriptures as outwardly preached to us by holy Men or as read by us in the holy Scriptures or having outwardly heard these things have been instrumental by and together with the immediate working of the Spirit of God to beget in us the Knowledge and Faith of them and we desire to bless God for the benefit of the holy Scriptures given us being able to make us wise unto Salvation through Faith in Christ Jesus but that we prefer the Spirit to the Letter we are not ashamed to own before all men and that God and Christ and the Spirit whom they testifie of are above the Scriptures and greater than they we do freely acknowledge for all outward Testimonies Means Instruments and Helps such as the holy Scriptures and all outward Preaching and Men and Books are but Servants to God and Christ but God and Christ are Lord and Master and King over all to whom be Glory and Honour forever and ever And as to the final state of all honest and conscientious Gentiles who have not had Christ outwardly preached unto them either by the Ministry of Men or the holy Scriptures it sufficeth us to believe that God is not wanting to them and it is one God who is the God both of Christians and Gentiles and who shall justifie the Circumcision by Faith and the Uncircumcision through Faith Rom. 3.30 and it is no greater nor other difficulty to understand how honest and conscientious Gentiles can be saved by Christ Jesus of Nazareth than how Infants and deaf and dumb Persons so born can be saved which our Adversaries generally acknowledge and therefore they can have no advantage against us in that respect Edward Thurstan Henry Bull. Anne Bull. Thomas Cornwall Thomas Roadman George Keith Ebenezer Slocum Joseph Nicholson Daniel Gould Jacob Mott. Walter Clark Rob Hutchins John Easton Note The foregoing Christian Faith of the Quakers in Rhode-Island was so disliked by G. Keith's Adversaries